Tim, thanks for posting the cards, they were very interesting. I have a scrapbook of similar cards my mother saved over the years. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and thanks for your list work over the years. Dave Rafferty ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:02 AM Subject: STOWELL Digest, Vol 2, Issue 41 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Jest 'Fore Christmas (Tim Stowell) > 2. for all seasons (Tim Stowell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:55:02 -0500 > From: Tim Stowell <[email protected]> > Subject: [STOWELL] Jest 'Fore Christmas > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > JEST 'FORE CHRISTMAS > > Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, > Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill! > Mighty glad I ain't a girl---ruther be a boy, > Without them sashes, curls, an' things that's worn by Fauntleroy! > Love to chawnk green apples an' go swimmin' in the lake--- > Hate to take the castor-ile they give for bellyache! > Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me, > But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be! > > Got a yeller dog named Sport, sick him in the cat; > First thing she knows she doesn't know where she is at! > Got a clipper sled, an' when us kids goes out to slide, > 'Long comes the grocery cart, an' we all hook a ride! > But sometimes when the grocery man is worrited an' cross, > He reaches at us with his whip, an' larrups up his hoss, > An' then I laff and holler, "Oh, ye never teched me!" > But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be! > > Gran'ma says she hopes that when I git to be a man, > I'll be a missionarer like her oldest brother, Dan, > As was et up by the cannibuls that lives in Ceylon's Isle, > Where every prospeck pleases, an' only man is vile! > But gran'ma she has never been to see a Wild West show, > Nor read the Life of Daniel Boone, or else I guess she'd know > That Buff'lo Bill an' cow-boys is good enough for me! > Excep' jest 'fore Christmas, when I'm good as I kin be! > > And then old Sport he hangs around, so solemnly an' still, > His eyes they seem a-sayin': "What's the matter, little Bill?" > The old cat sneaks down off her perch an' wonders what's become > Of them two enemies of hern that used to make things hum! > But I am so perlite an' 'tend so earnestly to biz, > That mother says to father: "How improved our Willie is!" > But father, havin' been a boy hisself, suspicions me > When, just 'fore Christmas, I'm as good as I kin be! > > For Christmas, with its lots an' lots of candies, cakes, and toys, > Was made, they say, for proper kids an' not for naughty boys; > So wash yer face an' bresh yer hair, an' mind yer p's and q's, > An' don't bust out yer pantaloons, and don't wear out yer shoes; > Say "Yessum" to the ladies, an' "Yessur" to the men, > An' when they's company, don't pass yer plate for pie again; > But, thinkin' of the things yer'd like to see upon that tree, > Jest 'fore Christmas be as good as yer kin be! > > - Eugene Field > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:14:59 -0500 > From: Tim Stowell <[email protected]> > Subject: [STOWELL] for all seasons > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Another year is drawing to a close. We've seen some good times and > some bad times, happiness and sadness. Sometimes these are mixed > leaving us wondering. > > Some may have lost loved ones or are near such an event. Some may > have new ones coming into their lives. I suppose for most it has > been a mixed bag year. > > We wonder what the new year will bring in it's bag - hope, joy, > sorrow and a whole host of emotions no doubt. > > This note is to wish each of you a good closing of the books for > 2007, a better opening in 2008. > > As of this evening this list has 50 members in what appears to be 3 > countries. > > Years ago my grandmother saved several postcards sent to her in the > early years of the 20th century. Some of these are presented for > your enjoyment classified as Christmas and New Year's Day cards. > > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state1/cards/chrstmas.htm > > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state1/cards/newyears.htm > Tim Stowell > Chattanooga, TN > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the STOWELL list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the STOWELL mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of STOWELL Digest, Vol 2, Issue 41 > ************************************** >